In most groups, people diverge once they have chosen individualism over community. This is the decision that people make for themselves that affects the group poorly and usually causes the group to separate. One person can not make a decision for the whole group, without at least one member being upset by it. This was a key problem in Lord of the Flies. Golding suggests that some sort of communal system is superior to a system of individualism, and that it is also impossible to sustain individual freedom within a group dynamic. This is why a democratic environment is beneficial. That way everyone has some say in what they have to do and what happens to them. In chapter four, Jack let the signal fire burn out. Ralph thinks of the community